• Australian Governments should include children under 12 years of age in the Reconnect Program. • The Australian Government should address inequality experienced by children living in regional and remote Australia through targeted measures. Education, leisure and cultural activities • Australian Governments should commit to the National Quality Framework and support the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority beyond 2020. • Australian Governments should commit to enhancing universal access to quality early childhood education and care services. • Australian Governments should monitor the progress of children who are developmentally vulnerable, especially in relation to whether changes to subsidies negatively impact on their experiences. • The Australian Government in its Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability should include children that do not qualify for support or do not have access to mainstream schools. • The Australian Government should commission an investigation into the use of restrictive practices in Australian schools and strategies to promote inclusive education for children with disability. • Australian Governments should ensure that data gaps relating to suspensions and expulsions are addressed in the national children’s data framework. Youth justice • The Australian Government should withdraw its reservation to article 37(c) of the CRC. • Australian Governments should explicitly prohibit the use of isolation practices and force as punishment in youth justice facilities. These practices should only be permitted when necessary to prevent an imminent and serious threat of injury to the child or others, and only when all other means of control have been exhausted. 35